The Picture Blog

Glass house tour and planting session in the first week‘Listen to your food’, we are told. Tapping the bread for the hollow sound and it is ready to be eaten.‘Rainbow salad’ with kale, puy lentils, red cabbage, pumpkinMendiants – delicious nibble with a cup of coffee and so easy to make. Melted chocolate with a topping of your choice- roasted hazelnuts, praline, candied peel, sea salt, raisins, dried cranberries etc.When life gives you lemons. First attempt at Lemon Meringue Pie. Oh Yeah!Homemade chocolate eclairs – need I say anymoreLearning all about our gut health in the fermentation lecture. Did you know we know we are the only animal in the world who cooks and we have been doing so for 120,000 years. But we were fermenting long before that.Lemongrass and Coconut Cake decorated with some edible roses.Courgette blossom wedding bouquet?!Autumn is here in the Ballymaloe Gardens.Loved cooking with this rainbow chard. Made a gratin of gruyere and chardMy man Jeff enjoying an espresso martini at the Dingle Food Festival.Multitude of pics as we prepped for our herb technique examSummer Berry Pudding.Rachel in action and that veg is Romanesco, a cousin of broccoli.Cows get 5 star accommodation – check out their view of Ballycotton LighthousePizzas I helped make on some work experience at ‘Saturday Pizza’ at the Garden Cafe in Ballymaloe.Wish I celebrated my birthday here! Darina presenting a cake to fellow student on their birthday.730am garden salad duty – going to collect some herbs and salad in glass house.Romanesco !